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Ten years ago, graffiti wasn’t the artistic behemoth it is now. Reserved for rail cars and dilapidated buildings in need of a good tagging, it wasn’t considered gallery worthy. Banksy helped change all of that and now he’s getting his due for it. Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers the last ten years of Banksy’s work from the streets to the galleries in a 240 page hardcover compendium. Gary Shove and Patrick Potter have quite a few street art books under their belts at this point in time, so taking a crack at graffiti’s prodigal son was only a matter of time. $24 Source
Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat | Cool Material
There are artists on this planet that are scary in their insane level of expertise. Jon Fenton is one of those people. Just take a look at this amazing picture. How it was made But what is really impressive about this, is how he made it.
Joe Fenton is Scary /by @42concepts
3D Street art is amazing type of art that uses the perspective of a 2D plane (usually a street) to make it appear as something else in 3D. It boggles you mind how you can trick your brain simply be using perspectives. Last week, 3D Joe and Max set a new Guinness World Record by created the largest and longest 3D street painting ever. And it is quite impressive.
3D Street Art - New World Record /by @42concepts
Historically Hardcore | Design Milk
Created by artist Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler during school for their portfolios, these fake ads for a famous museum are spot on awesome. And well done. Unfortunately, that major museum was not a fan. Jenny had to change the text at the bottom to read “Museums” and change the logo.Our most popular Art posts this year tend toward the graphic in style, with clever shout outs to the social media realm as well as references to the historical. We’ve also included the crafty, like the insanely intricate cutting of leaves, the kitschy (hello My Little Pony), and some good, old-fashioned mixed media work. More than anything else, we find it’s a sense of humor that binds them. The Positive Posters
2011 Year in Review: Best of Art | Design Milk
What is the illusion in #2? I just can’t seem to figure out what, if anything, is hidden. All of the others are good, particularly the swam and flutist after it.
Optical Illusion Paintings
Innovative Paintbrushes
I love the forked brush- if it was 5 lines you could paint a musical stave! The circle roller and brush are cool too, but it would be better if the compass on the brush was adjustable. Double ended brush could be good for travelling light, but in a studio it would be hard to store it without damaging one end. You couldn’t rest it in a jar, it would have to be on a rack.Nick Ringelstetter was born Feb. 7th 1986. Nick has been an artist his whole life. After graduating high school in 2004 he wasn't sure what he wanted to, so he got a factory job and started saving up his money. In the fall of 2006 Nick decided to quit his job and attempted to become a freelance graphic designer. Things were going great , but due to the slump in the economy he lost most of his clients.
Nick Ringelstetter
MAKE | Altered thrift store art: Some personal faves
It’s a simple idea: Find some bad art, whether original or a print, for a song at a thrift store, then modify it to make, if not “better art,” then at least something that’s more entertaining to look at. (Is it the same thing? Yeah, that sounds like a productive argument.) Anyway.
Book and Paper Art
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I don’t typically write in depth reviews of anything, and this time will be no exception to that rule. As always, I’d like to sum up my general thoughts on the book. Learning Curves (2011), by Klara Sjölén, Erik Olofsson, and Allan Mcdonald, is the amazing follow-up to the highly popular Design Sketching (2005) book, which I’m sure many, if not all of you reading this have heard about. if you haven’t, be sure to check them out. Learning Curves is an ambitious project. What makes it special to me is that rather than focusing on the same old, same procedural methodologies in other sketching books, Learning Curves brings together a myriad of designers and artists who contributed their work to this book.
Industrial Design Sketching and Drawing Video Tutorials
Skelewags - Urban Art (by @baekdal) #design
This cartoon concept by "Chewie" is great - mixing real world environments with cartoon characters. The style with skull like cartoon figures are not that special, but the overall style is.Sketch-A-Day-359 Sketch-A-Day 358: Quickie Sketch Sketch-A-Day 357 Sketch-A-Day 356 Sketch-A-Day 355